Libyan police unit admits kidnapping ex-spy chief's daughter

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Libyan police unit admits kidnapping ex-spy chief's daughter

Chris Stephen in Tripoli
theguardian.com, Thursday 5 September 2013 12.23 BST

The chaos at the heart of the Libyan government was underlined on Thursday when it admitted its own security forces kidnapped the daughter of Muammar Gaddafi's former spy chief from police custody this week.

Anoud al-Senussi, 22, was snatched in an armed ambush on a convoy of Libya's judicial police escorting her to Tripoli airport.

Four days after the prime minister, Ali Zaidan, vowed to track down her abductors, his government's elite gendarmerie, the Supreme Security Committee, admitted it carried out the raid.

An SSC statement said Senussi, daughter of Abdullah al-Senussi, who is due to stand trial for war crimes this month, was taken "for her own protection".

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[frylock]

1. i thought Libya was the shining example of how our interventions in the ME can work?

We Paulites are constantly reminded how things are going swimmingly in Libya (cough*Sharia law*cough), and that we should just STFU about any intervention in Syria.